 /*******************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c) 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.ui.views;

 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IPath;

 /**
  * Represents a categorization of views.
  *
  * <p>
  * This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
  * </p>
  *
  * @since 3.1
  */
 public interface IViewCategory {

     /**
      * Return the views contained within this category. Never <code>null</code>,
      * but may be empty.
      *
      * @return the views contained within this category
      */
     IViewDescriptor[] getViews();

     /**
      * Return the id of this category. Never <code>null</code>.
      *
      * @return the id
      */
     String getId();

     /**
      * Return the human readable name of this view category. Never <code>null</code>.
      *
      * @return the label
      */
     String getLabel();

     /**
      * Return this categories path. The segments of this path will correspond to
      * category ids.
      *
      * @return the path
      */
     IPath getPath();
 }

